The Big freeze
Holy god, its like a disaster movie at the moment. Okay, so I acknowledge I am extremely lucky to be living in town AND about 15 minutes, walk, skate or shuffle to work depending on the weather. But even still. Is there any need for the mass panic and hysteria which seems to have kicked in over the last few days. Par example my workplace. Full of mostly relatively sane people. Well yesterday someone said something about the buses being grounded and there was a flurry of activity. People were into their coats and out the door in record time. Yes it snowed a lot. Yes it was shocking about the buses being grounded but the panic? A bit much. Today was not as bad but still around 4 as the freezing fog started to descend upon the city, another flurry of activity. Coats being brandished, flowerpots and fruit being knocked over as people ran for the elevators shouting something about the buses not running past 8. It was 4 o’clock, how long could it possibly take people to get home?
This morning there was at least 45 minutes of a conversation about how packed the trains and the Luas was. Maybe its my age showing but I can manage 2 sentences on the weather and they usually go along the lines of “Yes, tis very cold” and “Really, 2 cms and they grounded the planes? And in Krakow they had 20cms and the planes were fine, really? That’s wow, that’s amazing” and if I can’t escape on time I’ll throw out the “Grit, really? They ran out? Of grit?” and so on, you get the picture. Actually speaking of pictures, here are some 
This one is the view from the starbucks at the top of our building on the 8th floor looking out over Hueston Station
I guess though the weather does bring out the sense of drama in people and whilst my brother who is never short on drama has that streak in him, I thought he outdid himself
today when he txted that he wasn’t sure they were going to make it to Holland if the weather kept up. Just to clarify, its not this weekend he’s flying out. Its not next weekend either. Its the 21st. Whilst the column inches pile up with every reporter who has suddenly become a weather expert, commenting on how this weather will last until March, I do think things will calm down. I’ll most likely eat my hat or words if this time next time I am still commenting on the weather. Or even better writing a whole post on it…Oh wait..Hmmm..redface 
